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Projective lexicon of the Russian language
February 12, 2006
NEWS
The magazine "Znamya" (1, 2006) published an article by M. Epstein " Russian language in the light of creative philology ." The editor-in-chief of the magazine, S. Chuprinin, in an interview with Lit. Gazeta, called the article scandalous, since it undermines official academic ideas about the well-being and vocabulary wealth of the Russian language.
This issue of "The Gift" is an anniversary one. In almost six years, 200 issues of “The Gift” were published. This issue contains a number of letters and thoughts from readers.
Projective lexicon of the Russian language
February 12, 2006
I congratulate our readers on the upcoming Valentine's Day - St. Valentine's Day. Valentina (February 14). Previous issues of "The Gift" - 142 , 143 , 144 and 145 - were devoted to love names, including those that lovers themselves create for each other and about each other, keeping them secret from everyone (cryptonyms).
"Love is always a conspiracy of two... the acquisition of a secret that cannot be shared with anyone. The key to this secrecy, the symbolic chosenness of two
there is only one well-known name for them."
When trying to find a gift, it is worth remembering that a gift can be not only a thing, but also a name, if it is not taken ready-made from everyday life, but created for the first time, in the image of a loved one, in consonance with him.
"All that remains for us is the name: Wonderful sound, for a long time." (O. Mandelstam).
NEWS
The magazine "Znamya" (1, 2006) published an article by M. Epstein " Russian language in the light of creative philology ." The editor-in-chief of the magazine, S. Chuprinin, in an interview with Lit. Gazeta, called the article scandalous, since it undermines official academic ideas about the well-being and vocabulary wealth of the Russian language.
In "New World" (1, 2006) an article by M. Epstein " The Oedipus complex of Soviet civilization " was published.
An electronic version of M. Epstein’s article “ Speech and Silence in Russian Culture ” in “Zvezda” (10, 2005) appeared in the Journal Hall.
This issue of "The Gift" is an anniversary one. In almost six years, 200 issues of “The Gift” were published. This issue contains a number of letters and thoughts from readers.
Reader's issue 12
1. Are we far from the people?
Hello, Mikhail Naumovich!
(if there are urgent matters, more important ones, put my letter aside “for later”)
Preamble. Interesting circumstances sometimes arise: I belatedly read your newsletter “The Gift of the Word” 127 and wanted to write to me
To you (about which - below), but I forgot my middle name and, putting this idea aside, out of curiosity I decided to look into a random magazine lying on my granddaughter’s table with the strange name “RED 100%” and suddenly I find that there is no
only your middle name, but also a portrait and an interview!
Main. For me, a techie who has nothing to do with philology, “hypnotized by the sayings of Lomonosov and Turgenev about greatness and
the power of the Russian language" (as well as I. Selvinsky: "how will you understand all the charm of Russian speech without love?"), but worried about the health of your native language, your statement about greater wealth was a great revelation
the English language, which all my life I tried to master in short bursts, but due to the lack of an urgent need, I never mastered it and did not appreciate its richness. You opened my eyes, but that's not the main thing. The main thing is that you have greatly increased my concern for the state of the Russian language! True, I have previously noted with chagrin the poverty of our everyday
language, including my own, but this mailing number somehow especially struck me.
I have been reading your newsletter with great interest for a long time and promoting it, but with great regret I note that you, like the Decembrists, are “terribly far from the people”... Alas! Your new words, or new meanings of old words and examples of their application are wonderful, but several thousand people read all this and practically nothing changes! I would really like your work not to be lost in the depths of publications for intellectuals! Perhaps we should explore the possibility of introducing word-creation lessons into the Russian language school course? Children love to play with words and the taste for this can remain for life... Or provoke children's poets and writers to
creating funny poems and comics on this topic? Of course, this should concern, first of all, Russian cultural figures. I am very touched by the fact that he cares about the health and wealth of the Russian language
more a professor at Emory University, not Moscow State University, and even “not quite Russian” by blood, and I am extremely grateful to you for your work and consider you more “Russian” than all Russians!
Sincerely - ordinary engineer (not human souls)
Anatoly Mikhailovich Ilinykh.
ilkh@gtn.ru
Dear Anatoly Mikhailovich!
Thank you very much for your letter that touched me very much and for your kind attitude towards “The Gift of the Word”!
All your suggestions: about school lessons on word creation, and about creating poems and comics that develop a creative attitude towards language - sound very appropriate. It was also possible to create a TV show, for example, on the “Culture” channel. But no matter how much I proposed on the same “Culture” there was no response. (In general, pedagogical programs are not favored, since they cannot be advertised with). Unfortunately, I do not have any means to set in motion extensive public, much less state, mechanisms.
We can only hope for the initiative of the readers. Maybe somewhere “The Gift of the Word” will respond sympathetically, and most importantly, effectively; maybe someone would like to bring these materials to school, to class. Today there was a program on “Echo of Moscow” about the words “Dara”, naming different types of Muscovites (issues 110, 111, 112). So some processes are underway. If you have any practical idea or opportunity, please share.
With sincere gratitude and respect,
Mikhail Naumovich Epstein
Hello, Mikhail Naumovich!
Thank you very much for your answer. I am glad that my letter interested you.
Of course, I am not against its publication. I'll be even more glad
if your answer to it catches the eye of some nobleman
uncle from the "Culture" channel and will touch him to the quick. Unfortunately I don't
I can imagine now where I could turn with my voice “from the bottom”
with the aim of influencing something powerful cultural figures. I myself
I’m not an expert at word creation to create and try something
publish somewhere, i.e. make a practical contribution to this matter.
I wish you success in your noble work!
Your dear reader Ilinykh.
2. Poetry of Yari and Yomi.
This letter and poems based on "The Gift" are from the author of many wonderful one-words and several guest editions, philologist Vitaly Abramovich Kolmanovsky. Lives in California; Before emigrating, he taught the history of the Russian language at one of the Baku universities and was the leader of the Baku KVN, the champion of the USSR among cheerful and resourceful people.
Dear Mikhail Naumovich!
It is probably possible to come up with a certain number of viable words, one-word words, root words, and, moreover, some of them will demonstrate this ability and come to life, that is, they will begin to be used in lively colloquial speech. But I’m afraid that the laws of language, like any laws of nature, are beyond the control of our will. The Russian language, unlike English, forms
forms with suffixes and endings, and if they are removed, the entire grammar of the language will change. In English they (auxiliary morphemes) almost disappeared, but it took centuries for this to happen. The Great and Mighty, however, lags behind in speed, but perhaps wins in representation, although I am not convinced of this.
Any word, any phrase comes to life when it becomes used.
I am sending you examples of some of the phrases and phrases I used. I confess honestly, and you will see for yourself that I had a very qualified co-author.
) are used (and highlighted) M.E.: In these light and in their own way virtuoso poems, many words from the “Challenge to Mat” series (issues 8 and 9 , as well as phrases associated with the expanded grammar of transitivity (issues 132 and 133 ). But some words are the creations of Vitaly Abramovich Kolmanovsky himself: love , love , lack of joy .Dedicated to MNEWithout thinking of amusing the proud world...
"The gift of speech", sweet as before,
I get it every time
And I indulge in bright hope:
To see you in our village!
I spend all my days on LiveJournal.
Wasn't it you who drove me there?
I'm there among many bad faiths
Apostle and missionary.
And, finding ourselves in this vale,
Careless and healthy
There’s still the same monologue in my soul .
I'm writing to you. What more?
What more can I say?
May grace return!
* * *
Yarets was Vanya and a lover ,
He received a gift from heaven
Desire, strength and courage,
And towards them - tireless rage.
He dreamed of a global yari ,
So that on the huge globe
everything kill He _ could
And become omnipresent like God.Oh, he loved like crazy,
Lovely maidens and lovely ladies.
He spoke them himself
Receiving smiles in return.
And be a little more persistent
I could make the Sphinx smile .Marusya was a fine girl,
Like a Russian stove of warmth,
With a burning heart, with a greedy mind
She attracted all the lovers .
I was waiting: I’ll catch the young man
He will forget Heaven and Earth,
He will forget his Motherland and Mother...
And he will wish for meAnd she waited, her eyes opened.
She said: "It's HIM!"
are full of love . Reality and dreams
And became more loving . days and nights
In the crossing of arms and legs and lips
Yesterday's dislike is forgotten .Everything was the same as with everyone else:
Loving Vanya quickly calmed down..
He remained in the desired area
At least sometimes I visited others.
Our Marya lived wonderfully,
And I didn’t suffer from lack of anger
I did not know cares and troubles...And Vanya is busy - he has a neighbor.
Burning with the fire of pure passion,
Always an enthusiastic hero
Sometimes I went to see my neighbor,
Well, just to say “hello” to her.
And for any other services,
When my husband was away...
3. About speech and silence
Dear Mikhail Naumovich!
Today I read your wonderful work “Word and Silence in Russian Culture” in Zvezda. I think that besides you, no one has covered this topic so deeply and comprehensively, in which there is something sacred. It seems to me that new words and a new language are also born from silence and muteness - the muteness of not a person. but Logos. New words drew me in so much that in the literal sense I imagine their flow as a centripetal funnel - it is very difficult and sometimes I don’t want to return to mediated language. But why is this breakthrough to a new speech given to a person? Is this a testimony to God or just a new literary genre to be accepted and mastered as a Gift? I think that these directions are silence and new words, only now
connected together, have the prospect of going beyond what has already been comprehended by humanity, and belong to a new direction, which is poetics, philosophy, and religion at the same time. Once again I want to congratulate you on
a work that is certainly significant in the history of Russian literature.
Yours, Alexey Filimonov
Dear Alexey!
Thank you for your deep and compassionate reading! Extremely for me
It is important to have a reader and fellow thinker like you. Really,
new words and grammatical expressions come from nowhere,
from the spirit of language itself, which already knows about its future what we
we don't know. And he tells, whispers, suggests... I just
I hear these words and turns of phrase in myself, as you probably hear too -
from one source.
Let you hear more! The joys of a new word!
Yours, Mikhail
Below are several letters related to two issues of “The Gift”: 136 (met) - about the lexicalization of the shortest roots, turning them into independent words; and 132 and 133 - about the function of transitivity and its expansion in the Russian verbal system.
4. Do Russian words tend to be lengthened or short? The question was posed by the famous writer Anatoly Kurchatkin (Moscow), author of many books, including the novel “The Sun Was Shining” (shortlisted for the Booker Prize).
Dear Misha!
I received the latest newsletter from "The Gift of the Word".
I can't help but praise you. Very accurate
consideration of the topic, a very important lexical layer. I think thoughts
yours on this matter will expand, examples will multiply -
Then it will be great to return to this “root language”. But interesting
It would be nice to think why modern language at the same time tends to
lengthening the word. Language is a living being. Something compels us
the word grow. Is this process productive or destructive? Or no
this, not the other?...
Yours, Tolya
Dear Tolya,
Thank you for reading "The Gift" and for your review!
What obvious signs/examples of Russian lengthening do you see? words in recent years? Actually Russian. language has an inherent desire to lengthen, as opposed to English (hence the “property” that grew out of “self,” which Dahl laments). But in recent years he seems to be striving for brevity, which is why he is chasing English roots, although he could look at his own, they are also short. True, there are few of them; there are only 4,400 roots in the Russian language.
Yours, Misha
5. From Alexey Filimonov (St. Petersburg), poet, literary critic, author of guest issues of “The Gift” (17 and 18).
Dear Mikhail Naumovich!
It seems to me that you have again hit the most painful point in the development of Russian speech.
Indeed, why has the organic method of rooting since the times of Pushkin and Dahl been recognized by many as some kind of overseas experiment? Nabokov wrote about Chernyshevsky's clumsy notes -
“weak” and “stupid” instead of weakness and stupidity. But Yesenin does not have these inclusions
They are only organic, but they are also word-symbols that expand the boundaries of the verse and, as it were, compensate for the innate “hysteria” of Yesenin’s and perhaps Tsvetaev’s intonation. I wanted to ask you - is it possible in the Russian language to create words where there are no vowels in writing, but they are implied in the sound - for example, the word "ice", which
could it mean ice, the process of unification, a kind of gerund?
You wrote very accurately about the poetry of the one-word genre - it is music, and gesture, and
philosophy, but poetry synthesizes all these principles, leaving the reader and creator on the verge of a miracle.
Alexey Filimonov
6.
Hello!
I read the latest issue of your newsletter, about transitivity of verbs.
First of all, thank you for the interesting newsletter, it’s really very
an unusual look at familiar words.
Secondly, I don't know if you're interested, but the education process
Transitive verbs from intransitive ones are already popular among the people :))) My boyfriend and I have developed the following expression: “to take someone for a walk.” He walked me :))). Well, don’t say “walked”, I’m not a dog? And “walked” is just right.
Thanks again.
Screams
freya@rbcmail.ru
7.
Hello!
I would like to thank you for the “Gift of the Word”, for all those new worlds and new visions of the old ones that you tirelessly open to us. Reading the newsletter is a great pleasure.
Thank you very much!
Anastasia,
student of the Faculty of Psychology of the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow)
Many thanks to everyone who sent their letters, reviews, comments!
In the next guest issue - the words sent to "Dar".
Write to me in KOI8 encoding at:
russmne@emory.edu
Mikhail Naumovich Epstein